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      Comments were also made on former recklessness and misconduct . Admiral Buckey addressing Captain Jbhnstorte , said that his conduct was likely to destroy ( unnecessarily ) public confidence in steam-ships . His certificate was cancelled . Signs of a Bad Winter . —At Manchester the incendiaries continue active , and warehouse property steadily vanishes . The police are vigilant , trat , ' not always successful . Sunday , it seems , is the favourite day . A Pmr . —There is no truth whatever in the allegation that the Kight Hon . W . G . Hayter , M . P ., is about to retire from his office of Secretary to the Treasury .

      Htbekhian iIbreverence . —At thte Candonagh Petty Sessions , the Kev . N " . C- Martin appeared to prefer a , charge against S . EanMn , Esq ., of Tiernaleague , a justice of the peace . Tie allegation was , that Mr . Kankia had turned his back on Mr . Martin while the latter was preaching , stared rudely at him , and made a great noise by slamming the door of his pew violently . The magistrates refused to receive the information , and Mr . Eankin . declared he had never intended to act irreverently in the chruch . —J > ubIin Evening Mail

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      THE CKI 1 OA . The . following is from the 3 ? aris correspondent of the JMToming Chronicle ?—> - Paris , TViday , December 1 . By the Nil , which arrived at Marseilles this day , "we have advices from the Crimea to the 18 th November . They refute the report of a battle on the 13 th . The Russians made a sortie on the night of the 13 th , but were driven back with a loss of 300 killed . The French lost 40 men . The hurricane on the 14 th blew down the tents of the

      army . The . siege works , which had been continued to within 80 metres of the town , arc suspended . The Russians have retired towards the Belbek . Omar Pasha has received despatches from Paris , urging him to hasten his offensive movement- He only Bends two regiments to the Crimea . Constantinople sends 10 , 000 men reinforcements . The Egyptian troops continue to arrive . Most of the English transports wrecked have been burned , to provent their falling into the hands of the enemy . General Cawoberfc , -who had been suffering for some days , ia completely restored . 300 Russians have been defeated near Eupatoria . Omar Pasha will enter Moldavia at the head of G 8 , 0 O 0

      men . Aclitnet PaBha , with 30 , 000 men , will occupy Babadngh . The avant-garde , 5000 strong , liaa already entered the Dobrutscha .

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      The Times says that Sir de Lacy Evans and the Duko of Cambridge had left the army invalided . Lord Palmerston arrived in town yestorday from Paris , and immediately joined the Cabinet Council then sitting ,

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      The * Lords of the Council have stopped the . exportation of lend , to any of the ports in the Baltic , unlcsn tlioir previous sanction is obtained . No loss than ninety tons of pig lead wore about to bo shipped for Prussia , intended , without doubt , for the onomy .

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      There is notching so revolutionary , "beca-use there is nothing so unnatural and " convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creationin eternal progress . —Dk . Abnoli >

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      PUBLIC OPINION . That the war against Russia Las been grievously misconducted by the cabinets and generals and admirals of England and France , is now , emphatically , the opinion of Europe . This is an opinion -which has been created , . by the hasty critics , misled by impatient liberal ism , in the press , but by the deliberate declaration , in public and in private , of military and naval men engaged in the war or watching it at a distance- —of acknowledged statesmen of

      all shades of politics—and of those reliable men of practical capacity who are so well represented by Mr . James Nasmyth . Even the Governments themselves acknowledge to immense disappointments ; and those infelicitous journalists who are pledged to the ignominious rdCe pf discovering the perfection of human capacity in all that ma y be done , or that may not have been done , by an emperor who a year ago was a laughing-stock , and b y a set of nobles whose careers consist in confessions of

      blunders , are suspiciously eager in defending their masters at the expense of Providenceand the accidents of war . Bat the common sense of the two nations perceives the blunders which have been committed ; and the condemnation of our own Government is all the more solemn that it is sorrowful rather than indignant . It is sorrowful because we cannot look for a safer future to the constitutional machinery of a change of ministers , a process which would exchange for stupid noblemen still more stupid noblemen- —because

      we must trust merely to a hazardous control by the House of Commons , which already the plushed publicists are entreating- to be patriotic •—that is to continue to have faith in the lordly incapacity and high-bred imbecility which have succeeded in throwing away , one year , 20 , 000 gallant fellows , and about 20 , 000 , 000 / . of money , with results so clearly favourable to Russia that she finds herself in a position sufficiently dignified to admit of her making proposals of peace , and securing tho alliance of the Gorman Powers . But , as Liberals , wo can see consolations . The more Lord Aberdeen attempted to proserve peace , the more did ho ensure an

      intensity in the inevitable war—disgusting mankind with diplomacy , both on moral and intellectual grounds , accustoming our own * passive public to the idea of war as not destructive to commerce , and affording opportunities to journalists , to orators , and to conspiring political parties , to appeal to human sympathies in favour of the oppressed , and tp arouse human passions against the oppressors And , so to the end . The catastrophes which have attended the nettv and clerkv coneenhave attended the petty and clerky

      conceptions of the war have educated the public of Europe into an idea of the greatness and grandeur © f the war ; and , at this moment , so gloriously has opinion grown , so superbly has the national heart beat ia holy horror of the illustrious agents of that" law and order" so recklessly sacrificed , the war has completely changed its character . For we are no longer , in the British estimation , at war for the defence of Turkey : we are at war for the destructaoo of Russia . Great principles are again in agitation : great thoughts are lifting a great nation

      into a magnificent realisation of its own strength , of its supreme position , and of its human duties to humanity . England seemsabout to stand in her grandest attitude : not waiting the technical enfrancliisemen . t in which her pedant politicians of the Russell cast would seek to enslave her , she faces Europe as a nation of freemen going forth for Freedom . The day of Liberalism is coming at last . The eloquent oration of M . Kossuth will deepen the tone of the present political feeling * The sarcasms which have been levelled at him

      are not worthy of our press : the writers who think him harmless because he is so passionately illogical forget that logic does not govera the world—rthat men worship genius and ^ foll ow it . M . Kossuth takes his point of view in preference to that of English statesmen , and he is , in consequence , a dangerous leader for England . Foreigners contrast the English system with the Austrian or Russian system —they exaggerate out felicities j and because our public opinion is supreme in comcaerce

      finance , and internal administration , they assume that the English people direct in haute politique . The English people will , we fully believe , take their way in this wonderful , convulsive , revolutionary war now commencing ; and if the English aristocracy do not lead , the English aristocracy will be put on one side . But , meanwhile , M- Kossuth forgets that we are governed by a cabinet only indirectly responsible to a Parliament which is impotent when the nation is apathetic ; and that ,

      because of that circumstance , it is simply absurd to advise England to join an American or a Frencli republic in converting Europe into a federalism of independent nationalities . Hence hia error in thinking that England was -wrong , either in regard to principle or to strategy , in , going to the Crimea instead of subsidisinghimself , Mazzini , and Lord Dudley Stuart , ia order to foment internal wars in the gruab despotisms . We began the war in order to > rescue Turkey from Russia ; we drove Russia across the Pruth ; and we next attempted to

      drive her out of the Crimea—stilus riddiug the Black Sea of her fleet , her prestige , and her menace of Turkey . We have found that our fleets , so invaluable in preserving England , are of little use in assailing other powers . "What would liave become of us if wo nad not sought , in tho first instance , the alliance of France , and , next , tho neutrality of Germany ? Though all Europe wore against us , as happened in Nelson ' s and Napoleon ' s time , wo could maintain our own island and our commerce in safety ; but as our business was to drive Russia out of Turkish

      territory , it was properly our first care to secux'O tho armies which wo ourselves ¦ wore without . Nevertheless , M . Koasuth / s appeal to English

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      to cokresfo : ndents . AJl letters for the Editor should be addressed to 7 , "Wellington-street , Strand , London . Nonotice cau be taken of anonymous communications Whatever is intended for insertion must , be authenticated by the name aad address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , tmt as a guarantee of his good faith . Coinmunications should always ~ be legibly-written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them . vve cannot undertake to returnrejected communications . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , o ^ ving to a press of matter ; and . when omitted it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of thecommunica tiou .

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      Leaser Oftice , Satarflay , December 2 . THE WAR . SIGNATURE OF THE TREATY BETWEEN . Austria ; mq tee western powers . The Daily News says , " upon authority that leaves no doubt on our ownminds , we are given to understand that lord Westmoreland . 'announcedyesterday by electric telegraph to JLord Clarendon the signa * ture of the treaty of alliance between Austria and the Western EWers . "

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      SATTJBDAY , DECEMBER 2 , 1854 .

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      1138 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 2, 1854, page 1138, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2067/page/10/